'Discipline your children;(LAW AND ORDER 1)

'Discipline your children; you'll be glad you did-they'll turn out delightful to live with.' Proverbs 29:17

We're producing a generation of kids who are allowed to rear themselves with the aid of television, violent DVDs, and the Internet (which can be a minefield!). Often both parents work, leaving one child to supervise another. As a result they become a law unto themselves. 'A child left to himself disgraces his [parents]' (Proverbs 29:15 NIV).  This takes me into wondering what happens to single parenting? Are we doing our best in disciplining our children? ofcourse we do !!!! well the question is are we doing what we are meant to do as parents to help these kids? I guess this s a whole different topic that we will have to look into in the near future, but from my experience, the fact that you have to play everything to your kids all by yourself affects so much into disciplining kids. There are things you could have been able to pay attention to if you had a support of your partner but since you have to deal with everything around the house you can easily let other things go just like that and unfrtunately there are things which build a child's personality. Most of us are loving parents, but our children need discipline and rules to live by. Love has a backbone, it's called law and order. Without it, love is just license. 'A refusal to correct is a refusal to love...' (Proverbs 13:24 Parents don't have to be overbearing, but children do need consistent and disciplined guidance. Enforcing law and order isn't easy. But the alternative is a betrayal of our children and our God-given responsibility!  Failure to enforce law and order to gain short-term popularity with our kids always ends up costing us their long-term respect. Expecting younger kids to work out for themselves what's right and wrong is a burden they shouldn't have to bear; their neurological and moral equipment isn't sufficiently developed yet for such responsibility. The Bible says, 'Young people are prone to foolishness and fads; the cure comes through tough-minded discipline' (Proverbs 22:15 TM).  Your children learn to make good decisions from the rewards and consequences of dealing with law and order at home. So don't fail them!  Source;